Colin Hall – presents “The Songs the Beatles Gave Away”

Author/music journalist Colin Hall is available for intimate speaking events based around his love and appreciation of The Beatles.   By 1963 Lennon & McCartney had written so many songs they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to be offered to other artists for recording and the Merseybeat boom of 1963 & 1964 gave them a tailor-made outlet in artists such as Cilla Black, Billy J. Kramer and Tommy Quickly. This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’.

For the past 20 years Colin Hall has been the custodian at John Lennon’s childhood home ‘Mendips’ (guiding the likes of Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono and James Taylor around the property), he’s written two books on The Fab Four and presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary with Alexei Sayle titled ‘The Lennon Visitors’. Colin was incredibly in the audience at the Village Fete where John was first introduced to Paul..! Colin has worked on several Beatles focussed projects before including the upcoming film Pre:Fab (which focuses on the band’s early days as The Quarrymen), a WBBC production of ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’ and 2007’s Sony Award winning ‘The Day John Met Paul.’

In this presentation Colin will tell the story of those songs and the writing of them and their background with The Beatles. The show is also available with a  musician who will perform live some of the songs that were never recorded by the Fab Four.

“Colin (Hall) is perhaps the world’s greatest Beatle authority” – Bob Harris

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